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             This mix of the fairy world and the human world causes get confusion and pain. In the fairy world it is okay to place magic on someone and let things turn out fine in the end but in the human world this causes confusion and hurt and Puck does not seem to understand that. He has placed a friendship on the line. Helena and Hermia are now arguing with one another because they blame each other for the events that happen. Helena and Hermia argue because Helena thinks that Hermia is in on the men's "joke." (Thinkquest.com 1-3).
             Throughout the play there are many references to the gender and sex roles of the characters. As described in the critical essay by Shirley Nelson Garner, the dominating male power and strange sex roles of the characters is fluent throughout the play. The ordering of the fairy, human, and natural worlds is a movement toward satisfying men's psychological needs; but it also disrupts women's bonds with each other. (Thinkquest.com 1-3) In my opinion, the play uses the roles of the women to show that men should control the women. In the play Oberon feels that it is okay to play with his wife's emotional so long as in the end he is happy with the end result. This still exists today in the world, where men feel that they should be able to control a woman's emotions. The role of Puck in the play also shows that men want to always be in control. Puck feels grand knowing that he can control how the characters and the play feel. He thinks he has the fate of the characters in his hand, but ultimately the fate is depended on them and not his magic potions. .
             Another example of how this play leans towards men's psychological needs is how Oberon feels about the Indian boy. He gives this boy to his wife because he thinks that will make happy, but he turns around and becomes threatened for the love that she has for the boy. This can also be seen today, but in a different situation. For example a man that doesn't want his wife to work because he is threatened that she will become more successful then him.


Essays Related to Summer

1. Winter or Summer?

... occasions, and the sporting activities available to all. To begin, I believe outdoor conditions are more favourable in the winter than in the summer. In the summer, people find it difficult to maintain their backyard regularly. the grass becomes long, people are forced to cut it. Gardening also becomes an ... During winter all the children are in school, so there are fewer families traveling, and the roads remain hassle free. Likewise, winter is better than summer because of the exciting holidays that are offered. In the winter, the Christmas holiday is great for people to enjoy. It prov...

  • Word Count: 643
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Symbolism of Summer in

... in the life of the protagonist in their story. This writers" tool is wielded nicely by David Updike and Alice Walker. These authors use the summer season to portray the youth of the protagonists in their writings. This use of symbolism also helps give the reader a better understanding of the story ... not possess the maturity of an adult. He still spends his days in "the adolescent pursuit of childhood pleasures" (317). These pleasures include many of the summer activities that most young people enjoy: tennis, golf, baseball, star gazing, canoeing, enjoying iced tea, etc. (317). Homer liv...

  • Word Count: 1143
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Explication-"Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day"

... just a few lines. The most captivating of all poems are love poems, especially when they are telling you of how beautiful you are. In William Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day" he does that very thing. Shakespeare is comparing the love of his life, this beautiful being, to a perfect and timeless season, and he does so in just fourteen lines ... emotions are wrapped up in sentence be it together or apart it is defiantly a beautiful thing. Shakespeare begins the poem with a question that proposes a comparison between his beloved and a summer season. Summer is chosen be...

  • Word Count: 665
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Movie Analysis - 500 Days of Summer

... of challenges the two go through, help to bring out the people that they are meant to be. In this movie, Fate brings Tom and Summer together, to help them discover that they do not control their lives, and that everything is not purely coincidence. Tom, a perfectly adequate greeting card ... doing the same, for the lack of reason; holding onto hope that good things will happen all the time. In another scenario, after Tom and Summer break up, Tom begins to go through the stages of a break up: being desperate for answers, going through denial, bargaining to better himself, ... location, h...

  • Word Count: 1075
  • Approx Pages: 4

5. Do We Need Summer Vacations

... their favourite activities and put the fast pace of life during the school days behind them. We have to understand that there are many consequences by not having a summer vacation. First of all, the summer holidays have an effect to the student's growth and development. It helps them to understand the family relationships because they can spend more time with them. The ... summer break basically provides them with learning and enhancement of experiences. In addition many of us tend to believe that due to long summer vacations students could not properly remember the knowledge learned pr...

  • Word Count: 265
  • Approx Pages: 1
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood Summary

... Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby, sharing a pair of magical pants with each other while they are apart over the summer. Lena stays home this summer she has broken up with her boyfriend Kostos who she met in Greece last summer. he comes and visits her and tells her that he loves her. But then something happens and kostos most ... her father has been keeping letters from her that her grandmother sent her she decided to go there. At first she disguises herself for most of the summer so she can get to know her grandmother with out her knowing its her. Also she begins to play soccer again which sh...

  • Word Count: 509
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

7. THE UNFORGOTTEN SUMMER

... gum in school, all gathered in one room. School was always real borin, but easy for me cause I wasn't stupid or nothing we were just poor. Work that summer was bad, Daddy couldn't get a job, maybe cause they found out he was in some kinda "mental place" after the war. He wasn't crazy; he was just ... well I hadn't seen much of him, he met some new friend and started to build a tree house in Old Bakers Canyon with this tree him and Daddy found the summer before he went to war. I helped them sometimes, but I had no idea how to build a tree house and I didn't nowhere he got the stuff to bu...

  • Word Count: 1508
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Shakespeare - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day

... , the third quatrain, and a couplet. The speaker starts off the poem with a question that directly addresses to his beloved one: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (Shakespeare, Line 1). This line is very important from the start, because it implies how much the speaker adores his beloved. This comparison is being used throughout ... and more temperate" (Shakespeare, Line 2). Shakespeare also uses repetition of "more" to bring out the emphasis of these two adjectives. Although summer is a beautiful season, it goes by too fast and there are "rough winds" sometimes. Shakespeare brin...

  • Word Count: 707
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Labour Upon The End Of Summer Days

... of those dry leaves beneath my shoes in a calm park on an autumn day. The day that my writing becomes a reality is the day that summer will truly end for me. However, until that day arrives, I"m stuck with constant scorching heat waves and rains that fall, not to bring relief, ... but to ravage all hopes of a good night sleep. Physically, fall is my end of summer. Mentality, though, my autumn would arrive a whole lot later. Labour Day is not like any other day. Perhaps not being apart of the labour force ... holiday ceased to exist, would school never start??? HA! I wish. Most students ...

  • Word Count: 386
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

10. A poetic comparison of C. Lewis's "Walking Away" and R. Hoban's "Summer Recorded"

... portraits in the reader's mind of nature's beauty. Yet, "Walking away" is a memory of the child he lost, while letting him grow up. While, "Summer recorded plays the happy memories of a time now long lost in the past. "Walking Away", describes the loss C. D. Lewis feels when taking his son to "[ ... "had worse partings" (L16) yet no parting annoys him as much as this one: "but none that so gnaws at my mind still" (L17). Whereas "Summer Recorded" remembers beautiful times now lost, and how R. Hoban would adore having them back. He has known days "of warm winds drowsing in the heat" (L17)...

  • Word Count: 692
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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